Method of making elongated tubs



(No Model.)

L. E. FLINT. METHOD OF MAKING ELONGATED TUBS.

No. 426,720. Patented AprLZQ, 1890.

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NITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

LEVI E. FLINT, OF ASHBY, MASSACHUSETTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 426,720, dated April 29, 1890.

Serial No. 821,119. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, LEVI E. FLINT, of Ashby, in the county of Middlesex. and State of Massach usetts, have invented a new and Improved Method of Making Elongated Tubs, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention, which relates to the manufacture of elongated tubs and other like vessels suitable either for dry or wet use, and including bathing-tubs, wash-tubs, and casket bodies or foundations, consists in a novel method of making such .elongated tubs or vessels, substantially as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim, and whereby notonly economy, but other advantages are secured.

Reference is to be had to thelacc'ompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a side view of an ordinary round tub, from which the ends of the elongated tub are made. Fig. 2 is a plan View of said round tub when out through or divided in the axial line of it. Fig. 3 is a view in perspective of an elongated tub made in accordance with my improved method, and Fig. 4 is an under side plan view of the completed tub.

To make an elongated tub or vessel--that is, an oblong tub orvessel having rounded ends, such as shown, for instance, in Fig. 3 of the drawings-J first turn or make in the lathe, as usual, a round t ubsuch as shown in Fig. 1-and afterward cut the same through the middle diametrically, thereby forming separate tub-halves A A. These half-round tub-sections I then use to form the ends of the elongated tub shown in Fig. 3, and join to or insert between them sides B B and a bottom C of any desired length and of a depth or width, respectively, corresponding to the depth and diameter of the tub-sections A A, and put on hands or hoops b l), to hold the whole in place; also, to stiffen and strengthen the tub laterally, I apply one or more stays or fastening-clamps to the bottom of the tub, as best shown in Fig. 4, consisting of a rod 0, passing through the chines, through or engaging the lower hoop b, and across the bottom of the tub. As shown, the stay passes through the lower hoop and has its ends headed down thereon.

The tub as thusconstructed may be used as a bathing-tub, or as a tub suitable for either wet or dry use, or as a body or foundation for a casket, and with its turn ed ends and smooth or even surfaces it may be readily covered when required to use it as a casket body or foundation. It will also have great strength, and when used as a wash-tub it provides for a wringer being allowed to remain on one end of it whilewashin g and of a wash-board being used at the other end without placing the clothes under the board. When such a tub, too, is not in use, it may be stood on end without taking any more floor-room than a round "tub does.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The method herein described of making elongated tubs, which consists in first turning a roundtub, then dividing said tub through its middle diametrically, and then uniting the half-round tub-sections thus produced with an interposed bottom and sides of any desired length and securing the whole together,

as set forth.

- LEVI E. FLINT. Witnesses:

MIRA E. WILKINs, LIZZIE F. BARRETT; 

